Claude Managed Agents sessions support hard spend budgets

PricingAug 7, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

A session budget caps spend at public list rates; when reached, the session pauses with the budget_reached stop reason instead of starting new model requests. Deployments can apply the same budget to every session they start.

AI agents LLMs Pricing

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Claude PlatformAug 7, 2026

Claude Managed Agents sessions can consult an advisor model

An advisor entry in the agent's multiagent roster names a model at least as capable as the agent's own that the primary thread can consult mid-turn for strategic guidance.

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Claude PlatformAug 7, 2026

Claude Managed Agents adds inference_geo to control where inference runs

Set inference_geo in the model object when creating an agent, or override it per session, to control data residency for model inference.

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Claude PlatformAug 7, 2026

Claude Managed Agents sessions load skills from GitHub repositories

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UpdateAI agentsLLMsSource

Claude PlatformAug 5, 2026

Inference hooks

are now in beta for Claude Enterprise organizations. Point Claude at your organization's AI security server, and each governed prompt across claude.ai, Cowork, and Claude Code is held for the server's allow or deny verdict before inference proceeds.

BetaLLMsGovernanceSecuritySource

Claude PlatformAug 5, 2026

Claude Opus 4.1 is retired on the Claude API

All requests to claude-opus-4-1-20250805 now return an error. Anthropic recommends upgrading to Claude Opus 5; researchers can request continued access through the External Researcher Access Program.

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Claude PlatformAug 10, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing of $2 / $10 per MTok becomes permanent

The introductory Claude Sonnet 5 price is now standard, and the scheduled increase to $3 / $15 per MTok on September 1, 2026 will not happen.

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Claude PlatformAug 11, 2026

Claude API adds the anthropic-workspace-id response header

Responses now carry the wrkspc_-prefixed ID of the workspace the API key or access token resolved to, including the Default Workspace, making it easier to attribute traffic to workspaces.

UpdateLLMsDeveloper toolsSource

Claude PlatformAug 3, 2026

Compliance API returns cloud Cowork session transcripts in beta

New /v1/compliance/apps/sessions/remote endpoints list Cowork sessions started on claude.ai web or mobile and return their transcripts for Claude Enterprise organizations.

BetaLLMsGovernanceDeveloper toolsSource

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Snowflake SnowflakeAug 7, 2026

DCM Projects (General availability)

DCM Projects are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.

GASQLPricingDeveloper toolsSource

Snowflake Snowflake Cortex AIAug 7, 2026

Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)

Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Providers can create the following objects in an app’s setup script: Apps can also use inter-app communication so that one app’s agent calls another app’s agent or MCP server.

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Databricks Unity CatalogAug 7, 2026

Tag automations (Beta)

Tag automations are now in Beta . A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change.

BetaGovernanceBIObservabilitySource

Databricks LakeflowAug 7, 2026

Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)

You can now read a change data feed from a materialized view created in a Lakeflow pipeline or in Databricks SQL, using Databricks Runtime 18 LTS or above. Use this to replicate materialized view changes to destinations outside Databricks, or to keep a history of materialized view changes for auditing and reporting.

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Databricks Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformAug 7, 2026

ai_search function (Beta)

The ai_search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources. Given a natural-language query, the function generates optimized search queries, retrieves and deduplicates results across sources, reranks them by relevance, and returns the most relevant documents.

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Google Cloud AlloyDBAug 7, 2026

AlloyDB can sync BigQuery tables in preview

BigQuery tables can be synced into AlloyDB once or on a periodic schedule, giving operational analytics low-latency transactional access to data lake data.

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